Harbin, Aug. 18.
In announcement made to-day, the Manchoukuo Foreign Ministry categorically declines to negotiate any question with the Soviet Consular authorities here until a number of frontier incidents have been adjusted to its satisfaction.
This action by the Manchoukuo officials is considered tantamount to the cessation of diplomatic relations between Manchoukuo and the Mr. R.G. Howe to Represent British Envoy of C.E.R. Negotiations: Price Reduced to 160,000,000 Yen Nanking, Aug. 17, The Foreign Office has been notts fed that Mr. R. G. Howe, new Counseller of the British Legation, will Feside at Nanking and represent the /British Minister, Sir Alexander Cado-
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following Tass report has been published here:
In view of the fact that the Manchurian delegation at the negotiations for the sale of the Chinese East-jem Railway left Tokyo, and that the gan, when the Minister is not in the Got ernment of Manchoukuo has Mr. Howe succeeds Mr. E. M. B. Ingram as Counsellor. In the interval between Mr. Ingram's departure and the arrival of Mr. Howe the Minister's, Tepresentative here has been Mr.
Published a declaration attempting to lay pott the USSR. the response sibility for the present suspension of the negotiations, Tass has made in-Quiries "in competent organs and.
Mr. Hirota that the Soviet Government was ready to make a new concession and to sell the railway for 170 million yen, On July 23, Mr. Hirota offered Mr. Yurenev 120' milieu yen, with the compensation for discharged workers to be defrayed by Manchoukuo, On July 30, Mr. Yureney told Mr. Hirota that the Soviet Government proposed to conclude the negotiations at the price of 160 million yen and USSR. and imperilling future relations between the two countries, as the Soviet Government has refuted the veracity of the reported incidents.
It is intimated that, pending a satisfactory settlement of the incidents, no diplomatic channels will be available to adjust in future any army incidents arising along the Manchoukuo-US.SR. frontier.
Protests have been made by the Manchoukuo authorities against alleged firing on four Manchoukuo steamers plying on the Amur River by Soviet guards, as well as the flying over Sulfenho by Soviet military aeroplanes.
Until these incidents are adjusted to Its satisfaction, the Manchoukuo Foreign Ministry states that it will not negotiate any question, including the recent arrest of Soviet_employees of the Chinese Eastern Railway, with the Soviet Consular off-
Merely. Adjourn Dairen. Aug, 1 Negotiations for the leat "the Chinese "Eattern Railway" between the Soviet Union and. Manchouleuo fave not broken down but have merely been indefinitely adjourned, Chuleht Ohashi, Vice-Minster of Foreign Affaire of Manchoukuo and Chief "delegate' to the sale -negotioe tions in'Tokyo, declared on his atsival nites OhaghtIniated that the fate to-day' from Tokyo.
of the negotiations depends upon the altitude of the Soviet "Puture developments will reveat whether: the Soviet Government Feally sincere In its offer to sell us {ig Interest inthe ralioad of win ther i's Just making & move to gain time," he stated "The responsibility for any possible brendown in the megotiatlons Wil eat with the party announcing "the discontinuation of the talk; Mr. Ohashi asserted "Reng
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